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另 外 还 有 商 人 和 杂 族 ( 历 代 下 九 章14 节 作 亚 拉 伯 ) 的 诸 王 , 与 国 中 的 省 长 所 进 的 金 子 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
all the kings: 1 Chronicles 9:24, 2 Chronicles 9:13, 2 Chronicles 9:14, Psalms 72:10, Isaiah 21:13, Galatians 4:25
governors: or, captains
Reciprocal: Genesis 42:34 - traffic Genesis 43:11 - spices 2 Kings 20:13 - precious things Isaiah 39:2 - precious things Jeremiah 25:24 - Arabia Ezekiel 27:21 - Arabia Acts 2:11 - Arabians Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon
Cross-References
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Cush also had a descendant named Nimrod, who became a very powerful man on earth.
Canaan was the father of Sidon, his first son, and of Heth.
Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The families of the Canaanites scattered.
All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.
Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had sons. One of his descendants was the father of all the sons of Eber.
Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, who was the father of Eber.
After a while he got up from the side of his wife's body and went to talk to the Hittites. He said,
"Zebulun will live near the sea. His shore will be a safe place for ships, and his land will reach as far as Sidon.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Besides that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants,.... What they paid him as a duty or custom for the importation of their goods:
and of all the kings of Arabia; who were subject to him, and paid him a yearly tribute, or at least made presents, see 1 Kings 4:21
and of the governors of the country; who were viceroys or deputy governors of countries conquered by his father, and who collected tribute from the people, and paid it to him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There is no mention in the original of “spice merchants.” Two classes of traders are spoken of; but both expressions are general.
Kings of Arabia - Rather, “kings of the mingled people” (compare Jeremiah 25:24). These were probably tribes half Jewish, half Arabian, on the borders of the western desert. They are regarded as Arabs by the author of Chronicles (marginal reference).
Governors - The word used here is thought to be of Aryan origin. It appears to have been a title given by the Persians to petty governors, inferior to the great satraps of provinces. We find it borne by, among others, Tatnai Ezra 5:6, Zerubbabel Haggai 1:1, and Nehemiah Nehemiah 5:14. It can scarcely have been in use among the Jews so early as Solomon, and we must therefore suppose it to have been substituted by the writer of Kings for some corresponding Semitic title. The empire of Solomon was not a state governed from a single center by an organisation of satrapies or provinces (1 Kings 4:21 note). But exceptionally, in some parts of the empire, the kings had been superseded by “governors” (compare 1 Kings 20:24).